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October 30, 2007

'Blonde Indian'

The other day I saw this article on the Red Lake Net News site: Hayes wins American Book award for her memoir, 'Blonde Indian.' It looked like a real interesting book to read, so I went onto the Amazon.com book site and ordered the book. I am suppose to get the book this Thursday or Friday, once I get done reading it, I may write a book report on it...!

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I can't imagine what they mean by "Blond" Indian, but will wait to read your review.

The only thing close to a "blond" Indian...a woman with blonde hair, blue eyes applying for a job at my tribe's human resource department yesterday and claiming "Indian Preference." She said she was a member of our tribe but didn't have a tribal ID or any evidence of being Indian. In fact she didn't even know what a tribal ID was. There was a Nishnabe laughing quietly and I was being polite and dumbfounded while the woman insisted she be given "Indian" preference. Human resources told her to go to tribal ops first. Geez...